Naked man sliced with box cutter after found with another man’s girlfriend

A man was nearly killed with a box cutter after he was found naked in an empty office with another man’s girlfriend, Maryland police said

The boyfriend fled the Annapolis office building but was captured nearby, hiding in the women’s restroom at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.

James Kerry Bennett

At about 4 p.m. Thursday, Anne Arundel County Police officers responded to a report of a man with a head injury who was naked from the waist down in a building at 116 Defense Highway.

The man was bleeding profusely.

Police learned that the man had been with a woman on the 5th floor of an office of the Conte Lubrano Office Building at 130 Lubrano Drive.

The female’s boyfriend encountered the two, and he sliced the victim’s face with a box cutter and then fled the building.

A suspect description was broadcasted and arriving officers located him in the women’s bathroom of the Wendy’s fast food establishment on Defense Highway and Housley Road.The suspect was taken into custody without incident.

A search of the area around the Wendy’s revealed a yellow box cutter between the hedges and a brick wall. The victim had non life threatening injuries, but required a significant number of sutures to close his wounds.

James Kerry Bennett, 43, was arrested and charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.